I sheltered at the base of these things once, we reached the summit and the wind became quite intense. It was too cold and windy to get our skins off to ski down. We couldn’t see anything either. We huddled in the hollows that formed around the downwind side around the base and got changed over and then Ski’d down. In hindsight it probably wasn’t dangerous as we were dressed for it, but it was scary, the wind was truly formidable. We lost a few items that flew away.

They are enormous in real life and it’s amazing the trunks don’t break as they sway in the wind.

Worth seeing in real life if in the area.